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The lowest possible negative exponent for the native base of the `BloombergLP&colon;&colon;bdldfp&colon;&colon;Decimal128` type that does not yet represent a denormal number&period; Defined to be &hyphen;6143 by IEEE&hyphen;754&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bdldfp&lowbar;decimal&period;h&gt;`

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static
int const min&lowbar;exponent = &hyphen;6143;
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